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- “My lord, I beseech you, remind me not of that fact so often. It is
true, but annoying. Nor will any wise man call another a fool.”
“Do you take me for a mere man, then, Babbalanja, that you talk to me
thus?”
“My demi-divine lord and master, I was deeply concerned at your
indisposition last night:—may a loving subject inquire, whether his
prince is completely recovered from the effect of those guavas?”
“Have a care, Azzageddi; you are far too courteous, to be civil. But
proceed.”
“I obey. In kings, mollusca, and toad-stools, life is one thing and the
same. The Philosopher Dumdi pronounces it a certain febral vibration of
organic parts, operating upon the vis inertia of unorganized matter.
But Bardianna says nay. Hear him. ‘Who put together this marvelous
mechanism of mine; and wound it up, to go for three score years and
ten; when it runs out, and strikes Time’s hours no more? And what is
it, that daily and hourly renews, and by a miracle, creates in me my
flesh and my blood? What keeps up the perpetual telegraphic
communication between my outpost toes and digits, and that domed
grandee up aloft, my brain?—It is not I; nor you; nor he; nor it. No;
when I place my hand to that king muscle my heart, I am appalled. I
feel the great God himself at work in me. Oro is life.’”
“And what is death?” demanded Media.
“Death, my lord!—it is the deadest of all things.”
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